Because I can...

I've been really into WW2 'nose art' recently (the artwork pilots would decorate the nose of their planes with) and yesterday through together a quick sketch that I decided to render in pencil rather than ink.

I've put this up on my sketch-a-day blog, but I liked this one enough that I thought I'd post it here where someone might actually see it.

There's obviously a lot of problems with it (it started out as a quickly scribbled sketch after all), but it's been so long since I actually tried to shade anything that I was surprised at how well it came out.